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My pupils dangle into the silence
of this moment of ecstasy, diluted
by the noise and pleasures of erethism …

My senses become hardened to chance
taking on this world without thinking
of my heart undressed and helpless
calling to the simplicity of one smile
from the hollow depths of this abyss
inhabited with my emotions…

I unravel without tearing into footsteps,
made revelation, without feeling empty
resuming my universe in the dew of leisure…

Note: After a discussion with a friend I decided to write 20 poems (this is count 20 and the final) which will take you into a Shamanic journey put down into poetry. These are not teachings nor do I expect the reader to learn anything, but if you do, beware of that gift that you possess and put it to good use…

From wet ashes and fumes
I raised myself high at dawn
I used to walk biped in the aurora
and now in the preamble of the Sun,
I let go of my body and befall
transformed into a diluvian opal
with my own gloss on a different face
awakening from a sound sleep
shriveled in the keys of knowledge.
Now just a myth lingers in the dew
on the torso of a vacuous carcass
that the land will devour in its time,
because this new etheric body
now flies in hand with the universe…
Desde húmedas cenizas y fumes
me volví a levantar alto al amanecer
Yo solía caminar bípedo en la aurora
y ahora en el preámbulo del Sol
me desprendo de mi cuerpo y acontezco
transformado en ópalo diluviano
con brillo propio en un rostro distinto
despertando de un sueño profundo
marchito entre las llaves del saber.
Ahora solo perdura un mito en el rocío
en el torso de una carcasa vacua
que devorara la tierra a su tiempo,
porque este nuevo cuerpo etéreo
ahora vuela de la mano con el universo…

Note: After a discussion with a friend I decided to write 20 poems (this is count 19) which will take you into a Shamanic journey put down into poetry. These are not teachings nor do I expect the reader to learn anything, but if you do, beware of that gift that you possess and put it to good use…

Am I the One for real?
Am I the One unreal?
a simple magic stone
of depth and consequences
a river bank of confluences
clear sky of concurrences
that shine just like gold
or did I just say an illusion
that was never seen?
maybe I was never told
Instead of a happy ending
what are we pretending?
would it be all our creations
or maybe dark motivations?
where is all the clarity?
where do we go from here?
do we turn to the left
or drown in the right?
straight on there is a light
where darkness awaits me.
and behind there is the rest
where I was undone in unrest
and in the clouds, and in the rain
Who am I? what am I?
the great fire long extincted
where my ashes were put to rest….
¿Soy yo el autentico?
¿Soy Yo el irreal?
una simple piedra mágica
de fondo y consecuencias
orilla de un río de confluencias
cielo limpio de concurrencias
que brilla justo como el oro
o acabo de decir una ilusión
la cual nunca fue vista?
tal vez nunca me dijeron
En lugar del final feliz
¿Qué estamos fingiendo?
¿Sería quizá nuestra creación
o tal vez una oscura motivación?
¿Dónde está toda la claridad?
¿hacia dónde vamos desde aquí?
¿nos regresamos a la izquierda
o nos ahogamos en la derecha?
allá al frente existe una luz
donde la oscuridad me espera.
y detrás está todo lo demás
donde me deshice de la inquietud
y en las nubes, y en la lluvia
¿Quién soy yo? ¿qué soy?
el gran fuego extinto en el tiempo
donde pusieron mis cenizas a descansar….

Note: After a discussion with a friend I decided to write 20 poems (this is count 18) which will take you into a Shamanic journey put down into poetry. These are not teachings nor do I expect the reader to learn anything, but if you do, beware of that gift that you possess and put it to good use…

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Gavriel Navarro

Gavriel Navarro is a Spanish-born poet, musician and artist who grew up in Venezuela and England. After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, he spent eleven years in the Amazon as a hunter, an Eco-tourism guide and apprentice of shamanic wisdom. The multilingual Navarro now makes his home in Japan where he applies the lessons of his peripatetic life through film-making and transcendent poetry...